Le destin d’un mouvement : le structuralisme
Destiny of a Cultural Movement: the Structuralism

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to trace back to the history of structuralism, as a cultural movement that, in the 1950s-1960s, spread from linguistics and reported in France a huge success in a lot of humanities. A linguistic method was upgraded to the rank of universal method in the study of human sciences, which now makes us look back with great intellectual curiosity to the destiny of these ideas. Where they came from and how they were imported in so many fields makes the first issue contemplated in the structuralist retrospective that makes the first part of my study. The second part is a historical restoration and questioning of the destiny of a philosophical structuralist best-seller, The Order of Things (1966) by Michel Foucault, with a special emphasize on the paper wars fought around the antihumanist and anti-historicist issues approached by Foucault, and particularly on his debates with Sartre, the Existentialist father of the old French philosophy of those years. This book was quite rapidly left behind by Foucault in his career, along with his structuralist stands, but even now, after so many years, the reception history of this book makes a remarkable stand for the passion for language and for systems of a strange generation of thinkers.

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